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FEB 23 1914 VoL. VII. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S. C., FEBRUARY 21, 1914. No. 18 APPROPRIATION BILL IS PASSED BY HOUSE Passed Entire as Committee Had Recommended. Total Appropriation is About $2,000 Less Than That of Last Year. After standing a bombardment of amendments aimed at most of its principal provisions; the por tion of the Appropriation hill containing the items for the Uni versity of South Carolina, carry ing a total of $134,931. 19, passed the House and is now on the cal endar of the Senate. The Senate will make such changes as it sees fit, and after these are thrashed out in a committee of free confer ence the bill will go to the gov ernor. The most interesting item in the bill is -the one making provision for the erection of a $4O,Ou0 law building. The move menit to get a modern law school on the campus was begun three years ago by the law class of 1912. The enthusiasm that marked the launching of the project did not all die out and to thes" early organizers belongs much of the credit for the appro priation of the present sum. It was pointed out on the floor of the IHouse that although the law school has over 1O() members, it has only one class room, and this is old and shabby in the extreme. h'lhe fact there is only one class room makes it almost impossible to arrange a satisfactory sched ile, this being especially trouble Sme1 during examinations. The law school has grown faster than any other lelartment of the Uni versity during the past few years without any increase whatever either in iaculty or equipment. $4, 74() is appropriated - for the im)rovement of the mess hail. This money will be used to com plete the program of enlargement and improvement begun last year. Provision was made for an additional instructor in the de partment of Civil Engineering. Thllis instructor will probably be one of the graduates of the de partment and will enter upon his duties next year. In an added provision the trus tees are empoweredl to receive any gifts or bequests that might be madle to the University in the next year. It is providled, how ev er, that nothing shall be re ceivedl entailing' an add(itlonal GAMECOCKS WIN FROM BAPTISTS Carolina Wins Third Game at Home, 32 to 16. Basketball Team Gains Another Point Towards the State Championship.' Last Saturday night in the gymnasium the University bas ketball team defeated Furman by a score of 32 to 16. The game was hard fought from the start. At the end of the first half the score stood Carolina 12, Furman I ten. But in the second half Furman weakened, while Caro lina showed great improvement and rolled up points with com parative ease. Both teams seemed abou t even ly balanced; none excelled their teammates very materially, al though Drake did good work for the Furmanites, and in the last few minutes of the game Brooker did some beautiful goal throwing for the Gamecocks. The teamlis lined up as follows: Carolina 32 Furman 16 Brooker R F Drake Danner, Stoney, Seay, Reeves I F Trul uck Poole C Sapoch Stoney, Danner R G Sinms Farrell L G Anderson Goals: Carolina---Poole 1, Seay 1, Stoney 3, Danner 2, Farrell 1, and Brooker 5. Fllrman --- I)rake 2, Simms 1, Truluck 1. Goals from fouls: Carolina Poole 6. Furman Drake 8. Referee: Appleton. appropriation on the part of the legislature. The sections of the bill relating to the University are as follows: Maintenance, salaries and equipmen t..... $72,775 19 Forty-fourscholarships (14,400 00 Wages .janitor Wood row college ....... .. 312 00 Wages engineer heat ing plant...... ..... 900 (0 Additional equipment. 1,040 001, Unusual repairs ...... 4,70.1 00 Enlargement and im provement of heat ing plant........... 5,000 00 Special items......... 5,000 00 Law building......... 40,000 00 Provision for instruct or in department of civil engineering.. . 800 00 James D). Brandenburg will be in the Trinity debate preliminary. S rmeh)o(lv elble Jlim .Jeffries. DR. N. B. EDGERTON ADDRESSES Y. M. C. A. Makes Interesting Address on Medicine. Says Medical World Needs Men Who are Studious and Well Prepared. Dr. N. B. Edgerton gave the third of the great life-work lec tures before the University Y. M. C. A. Wednesday night. He spoke on the practice of medicine as a life work. Dr. Edgerton said: In the study of medicine, one must throw himself with all the enthu siasm that he can muster into the prof'ession, working continu ally; in other words to get a run ning start and keep it up. lie mentioned the fact that there were 277 medical colleges in the civilized world, 112 of which are situated in the United States. In these co leges are many men who are insufliciently prepared. Likewise among the practicing physicians there are many who re not sl(liuiently preparedl. They, said he, have not the pow ;'r of figuring things out for themselves, and in order to make a living, many become quacks. He continued: Medicine is an art and a science. An art be ;-ause it relates to something to be done, and a science because it relates to something to be known. Because there is something to be lone and something to be known all the time, men must be stu diouls not only in college but even more so in after life. It takes five years of prepara tion to become a thorough eluip ped doctor, four in college and ,ne in the hospital. There is no Dther profession with more ave nues for doing good. There are always olportulnities for doing gLood open to the physician some times closed to others. He conparel the field of medi ,ine to the rolling equipment of a railroad, saying that many doc tors were nothing more than box ears to he thrown into the trash heap when they were no longer useful; others, he said, were as passenger coaches, others as piullman cars, while still others were magnificent steam engines, really (loing things in the field of medicine. These last named1 are he k(ind that the medlical profes sion needs. HeI mentioned the commonly known quacks as the kind that medicine does not needl. BASEBALL PRACTICE BEGINS WITH A VIM Artists of the Diamond Cover Davis Field. Many Men, Old and New, Out for a Place on the Team Uniforms Ordered. Regular baseball practice be gan Wednesday afternoon with about thirty-five men on the field. Coach Guerrant gave a call for the candidates in a talk before the student body Monday morn ing. He said that no one on the team ever has his place cinched, under him, and the man with the goods is the man who will get a place. He mentioned the fact that at least eight varsity men will not return to Carolina next year, and for the team of next year material must be developed this season. Carolina is fortunate in having a number of old varsity men in school. Fritz Vonkolnitz will play his third stellar season at Carolina this yer.' Pig .John Mills, and "Babe" Adams, both varsity pitchers of last year, will be on hand to do their share of the twirling; Capt. Edens, Shul er. Rudisill, and Horton, of last years infield; Watts, Barksdale, McGowan, and Langston, of the outfield, are all eagei' for the fray. Many new men on the field give promise of making some one hustle for a job. Uniforms for the team have been ordered. The material is white with a black pin stripe. The sleeves are three quarter length piped in garnet. The V neck is garnet. On the front of the shirt is a gamecock done in garnet, and a garnet C is on the sleeve. The stockings are black with a deep garnet stripe, and the caps are black. The coat sweaters, roll collar style, are deep garnet, and some of them have the black English C, which is given to those making their letter in baseball. Those with the C on them will be worn by men who have formerly made their letters. It is exactly a month from Monday before the first game of the season with Lafayette. La fayette always has a strong team, but we also have a few ba!l play'ers and they are going to have a job) on their handls when they tackle the Gamecocks on March 23.